Fender for motor-cars.



G. A. PARMENTER. FENDER FOR MOTOR CARS. APPLICATION men JULY 16. 1914.

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G. A. PARMENTER. FENDER FOR MOTOR CARS.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 16. 1914. 1,153,566. 1 PatentedSept. 14, 1915.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

PatentedSept. 14, 1915.

Application filed July is, 1914.; serial No. 851,337.

To all whom it may concern; 7 Be it known that I, GEORGE A. PARM N- 'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cambridge, Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fenders for Motor-Cars, of whichthe following is a specification. 7

My present invention relates to improvements in life guards for street railway cars, and particularly'to that type known as front fenders, and has among others for its objects to provide a construction which will be sure and certain in its operation, Which'wvill enable the portions designed to catch the body of a person on the track to yield sufficiently to prevent injury without any rebound; to facilitate the proper tripping of the device by the motorman, and which can be readily foldedinto compact vertical position when not in use.

With these and other objects in view, the invention includesthe novel features of construction and arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and particularly defined by the appended claims.

' A fender embodying my invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in wh'ich Figure l is a side elevation of my improved fender showing diagrammatically a sufficient portion of the front platform of a car to illustrate its application thereto, the fender being shown by dotted lines in the other positions it may assume; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the fender ;'Fig. 3 is a sectional detail of the catch member 17; Fig. 4 is a sectional elevation taken at right angles to Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a detail view in elevation of one of the socket blocks'a's seen looking from the right of Fig. 2 or front of the fender;

Fig. 6 is a plan viewof the same; Fig. 7 is a detail View ofthe connection between parts 7 and 10 as seen from the left, Fig. -1; Fig. 8 is a detail illustrating one of the upper links, Fig. 9 is a detail elevation of the upper end of one of the bars 7 showing the connection of the ratchet link-and spring link thereto; Fig. 10 is a detail plan-view of the rigid pawl or projection 15..

Referring by reference characters to these drawings, the numeral 1 designates the end platform or portion of the car from which the fender is pivotally-supported. The preferredmanner of supporting the fender is to bolt a pair of members or forgings 2 to the under side of the wooden crown piece 3,

1 these members having downwardly extendingarms 2* and 2". These arms are provided at their lower ends with hearing portions or sockets in which are journaled thimbles a and b respectively. The thi-mbles a receive and rotatably support the shaft v('3 which carries the fender locking and releasing mechanism hereinafter more j fully described, while thethimbles 6 receive :and rotatably or pi-votally support the -;squ'are rod or bar 5 which constitutes the fender supporting bar. In order to support the fender from the bar or shaft .5, -I provide said barwith upwardly turned ends 5 on which are removablysupported sooket blocks or members 4s. These blocks are provided with recessed front faces in which recesses are held the vertical or upright bars 7 by means of clamping plates 6* and bolts as. The socket form of connection between the upturned end 5 and theblocks allows the fender to be readily lifted off from one end of the car and applied to the other end. The fender is supported and held in proper position by upper and lower sets of links 9 and 10, the lower links 10 supporting said upright the proper distance from the ground or roadbed, while the upper links tend to yieldingly hold it in position,-allowing it to yield when struck by a body, means "being provided to prevent rebound, as hereinafter more fully described. The lower links 10 are connected to the lower ends of the bars 7 in such a manner that while downward movement with relation to the upright bars of fender frame 8 f? is prevented by the stop plates 20 hereinafter described, they are yet capable of being lifted up for folding of the fender,

and a convenient form of pivotal connection lugs or brackets 10. The fender is preferably provided with a pick-up portion indicated by the frame members 11, 11 and 11", 1

which is preferably formed as a rigid extension of or carried rigidly by the links 10. A

- netting is preferably provided extending between the rear bar ll", the side chains 13 and a cross red 13*, which latter is connect "eye to receive the pin.

upright bars of the fender frame 8 preferconnections 19 with the oppositely placed In order to yieldingly support the upwardly extending fender frame 8 in proper position and yet allow it to move properly and fold with the other parts into compact position against the front of the car, as

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,1 form the upper links in the shape of leaf springs.

preferably of the form shown in Fig. 1, and pivotally connect them at their forward ends to pins 9* on the upright bars of the fender frame 8 and at their rear ends to pins 9? connected to theupper ends of upright bars or members 7. The pins 9 may be secured in any suitable manner to the backwardly inclined upper ends of the bars 7 and the springs 9 are preferably pivotally connected to the pins by having their rear ends bent into the form of a sleeve or Connected to the ably by use of the same pins 9 are a pair of ratchet bars 1% which extend rearwardly and the teeth of which are adapted to coact with teeth or lugs 15 carried by the bars 7.

The rear ends of these ratchet bars 1 1 are pivotally connected by links- 9 with prolugs 15, and on further movement the ratchet teeth will ride over the lugs 15 and 40 lock the fender frame in its rearward position against the rebound of the springs, the slots of the links permitting the necessary movement of the links as the teeth ride over the holding teeth or lugs.

It is practically necessary that the pickup portion 11 should be carried normally at such an elevation as to clear the roadbed,

but be capable of being dropped when a person is seen upon the track. This is accomplished by providing the rock shaft 5 with a rigidly connected rearwardlyex- "tially upright fender frame, upper and lower sets of links, each linkpivotally con- 'necting respectively with an upright bar" tending controlling arm 16, the rear end of which normally rests beneath a roller 16* carried by a catch member 17 on the rock shaft 6. This catch member 17 is preferably made in the form of a recessed casting adapted to be secured to the shaft 6 by a set screw, and having the roller 16 journaled within its recessed portion, said recessed portion having an upper wall 27 providing a stop to limit the upward movement of the arm 16. The rock shaft 6 has arm 20 on the lower end of the motormans spindle 21. This spindle is provided at its upper end with a handle 22 in convenient position. to be grasped by the motorman, and by reason of the double chain connection it will be evident that the'rock shaft willbe.

operated by either a push or pull on the handle, thus avoiding all danger of delay orfailure to act were movement in the wrong d rectlon such as 'mlght occur were only'a one way movement relied on to operate the release. As soon as the roller 1.6 passes off to the controlling arm 16 for normally hold l ing the parts in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 1.

In resettingthefender I provide a lever 21 pivoted at its rear end to the arm 2 ,"and

at its front end to the lower end of the treadle 24, an' intermediate portion of the lever being connected by a link 26 with the lever 16.

In order to readily adjust the fender so as to vary the height of the'pick up portion 11 from the roadbed, l mount on the back of the bars 7 non-circular plates 20, shown in V the pivot may be caused to act as a stop to limit the upward movement of the portion" of the link 10 in rear of its pivot.

If desired thewhole fender and release mechanism may be made adjustable to fit cars of different heights by providing the bars 2 and 2?" with a series of holes' and" bolting the be'aring portions or members for the thimbles a .2' and 2 I claim as my invention and b adjust-ably to the bars 1. A fender or guard comprising substan-"" tially upright bars adaptedfor attachment to the front of a motor vehicle,a substanlower links.

2. A fender of the'class described com prising a pair of substantially upright members, a fender frame, upper and lower sets of links, each link pivotally connecting re spectively with the fender frame and one of said upright members, and means interposed between the upright members and lower links for limiting the downward movement of the latter.

3. A fender of the class described comprising a pair of substantially upright members, a fender frame, upper and lower sets of links, each link pivotally connecting respectively with the fender frame and one of said upright members, and adj ustable means interposed between the upright members and lower links for limiting the downward movement of the latter.

a. In a fender of the class described, a pair of supporting bars, a pair of fender supporting members pivotally connected to said bars and having portions extending in rear thereof, and adjustable stops carried by the bars and contacting with said rearwardly extending portions.

5. An apparatus of the class described comprising a pair of substantially upright members, a substantially upright fender frame, upper and lower sets of links, each link pivotally connecting respectively to an upright member and said fender frame, said upper links comprising leaf springs, a pick up frame projecting forwardly from said lower links, and lug and ratchet mechanism cooperating with said fender frame to prevent rebound after compression of the leaf springs.

6. An apparatus of the class described comprising a pair of substantially upright members, a substantially upright fender frame, upper and lower sets oflinks, each link pivotally connecting respectively to an upright member and said fender frame, said upper links comprising leaf springs, a pick up frame projecting forwardly from said lower links, a ratchet bar pivotally connected with said fender frame at one end, a link pivotally connected with said ratchet bar at the other end and having a sliding pivotal connection with a stationary pin, and a rigid lug supported from said upright member arranged to coact with said ratchet bar.

7. In combination a motor car, a fender having its lower part pivotally supported from the car, a resilient connection between the upper part of the fender and the car, a ratchet bar pivotally connected to the fender and extending rearwardly therefrom, a rigid lug with which said ratchet bar coacts, and a link connecting the free end of said bar with a part carried by the car, one

of the pivotal connections of the link being a sliding connection.

8. The combination with a motor car, of a rock shaft pivotally supported at the front thereof and having a rearwardly extending controlling arm, a pair of substantially upright members carried by said rock shaft, a

fender, upper and lower sets of links, each link pivotally connecting respectively to an upright member and the fender, a catch lever for holding said controlling arm depressed, and means for operating said catch ever.

9. The combination with a motor car, of a rock shaft pivotally supported at the front thereof, a fender supported from said rock shaft, a controlling arm extending rearwardly from said rook shaft, a second rock shaft carrying a catch lever for engaging said controlling arm, an arm on said second rock shaft, a vertically extending spindle suitably journaled and having an operating handle at its upper end and a pair of oppositely extending arms on its lower end, and a pair of flexible connections from said pair of arms to the arm on the second rock shaft.

10. The combination with a motor car, of a rock shaft pivotally supported at the front thereof, a fender supported from said rock shaft, a controlling arm extending rearwardly from said rock shaft, means for holding and releasing said controlling arm, a resetting lever above the controlling arm, and a link connecting the resetting lever with the controlling arm and means for operating said resetting lever.

11. The combination with a motor car, of a pair of substantially upright members pivotally supported from the end thereof, a

pair of links pivotally connected to the Copies of this patent may be obtained. for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

